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A work made of transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and traces of scraping, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper.

Breaking Storm, Coast of Maine

Winslow Homer · 1894

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Palette

Oyster
 36% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1
Ash
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1
Pewter
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Graphite
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.2:1
Slate
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Taupe
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Winslow Homer
American, 1836-1910
Date
1894
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and traces of scraping, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper
Size
38.4 × 54.6 cm (15 1/8 × 21 1/2 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Rain and storms
Main colour
Grey · lightness 66, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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